CVE-2012-1611
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.4 does not properly check permissions, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive "administrative back end" information via unknown attack vectors. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2012-1599.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/398-20120307-core-information-disclosure.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48683
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/5
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/398-20120307-core-information-disclosure.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48683
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/5
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.